Information for Radio Amateurs

This page is dedicated to the amateur radio community and lists information related to our SONATE-2 mission.

 

Please contact sonate-2@uni-wuerzburg.de for any questions regarding SONATE-2 amateur radio operations.

 

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Two Line Elements (TLE) for SONATE-2

The official NORAD-ID of SONATE-2 is 59112 and its international deignator is 2024-043Q. Current TLE information can also be found on the CelesTrak website.

[Updated 20.03.2024]

SONATE 2               
1 59112U 24043Q   24079.48337772  .00008819  00000+0  46062-3 0  9990
2 59112  97.4643 204.5389 0015073 244.9301 115.0367 15.16043129  2202

 

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Radio Links

CW beacon:
A few minutes after separation a beacon transmitting the satellite's callsign DP0SNX will be activated.

Frequency: 145.840 MHz
Modulation: Morse code CW (A1A)
Interval: 30 sec

Telemetry downlink:
During passes over our ground stations in Germany the telemetry downlink will be activated.

Frequency: 437.025 MHz
Modulation: 9k6 G3RUH GMSK (F1D)
Protocol: AX.25

The protocol format used for encoding the telemetry frames can be found >>here<<.
Recorded AX.25 frames can be forwarded to sonate-2@uni-wuerzburg.de

After commissioning of the satellite, the amateur radio payloads will be activated. Their activation will be announced on our Twitter account https://twitter.com/JMUSpace/. Planned are the following:

SSTV downlink:
Regular downlink of images captured by the on-board cameras

Frequency: 145.880 MHz
Modulation: Martin M1 SSTV FM (F3F)
TX Power: 500mW

APRS digipeater: (Updated 26.07.2024)
APRS digipeater in half-duplex operation. Digipeater is only active when published >>>here<<<. When activated, it will transmit a greeting message every 2 minutes. Make sure to include SONATE-2 callsign DP0SNX in the APRS route.

Frequency: 145.825 MHz Up/Down
Modulation: 1k2 AFSK (F2D)
Protocol: AX.25
TX Power: 500mW

APRS Digipeater Schedule

APRS Digipeater Schedule (last Update: 26.07.2024)

APRS Digipeater is enabled from 26.07.2024 16:00 to  29.07.2024 00:00 (short break 27.07.2024 12:00-12:30)
(All times are UTC)

Please contact sonate-2@uni-wuerzburg.de for any questions regarding SONATE-2 amateur radio operations.

SSTV Schedule

SSTV Transmission Schedule (last Update: 05.07.2024)

SSTV weekend 2024 05 .-08.07.2024
(All times are UTC)

Please contact sonate-2@uni-wuerzburg.de for any questions regarding SONATE-2 amateur radio operations.

SSTV 05.-08.07.2024
(All times are UTC)
Australia
(Central/West)	(East+NZ)
06/07/2024 04:18:00	06/07/2024 02:46:00
08/07/2024 03:47:00	07/07/2024 02:31:00
	08/07/2024 02:14:00
Asia
(South East)	(East)	(Central, India)	(Middle East)
06/07/2024 05:46:00	05/07/2024 16:29:00	06/07/2024 08:49:00	06/07/2024 10:24:00
07/07/2024 05:27:00	06/07/2024 16:13:00	07/07/2024 08:34:00	07/07/2024 10:07:00
08/07/2024 05:14:00	07/07/2024 15:58:00	08/07/2024 08:18:00	08/07/2024 09:53:00
Europe
(West)	(East)
06/07/2024 02:04:00	05/07/2024 22:54:00
06/07/2024 15:04:00	06/07/2024 22:38:00
07/07/2024 01:47:00	07/07/2024 11:38:00
07/07/2024 14:48:00	07/07/2024 22:22:00
North America
(West)	(Central)	(East)	(Hawaii)
05/07/2024 21:41:00	05/07/2024 20:08:00	05/07/2024 18:33:00	06/07/2024 11:25:00
06/07/2024 21:25:00	06/07/2024 08:21:00	06/07/2024 06:46:00	07/07/2024 12:43:00
	06/07/2024 19:51:00	06/07/2024 18:17:00
	07/07/2024 08:05:00	07/07/2024 06:29:00
	07/07/2024 21:11:00	07/07/2024 19:35:00
	08/07/2024 07:50:00	08/07/2024 06:13:00
South America
05/07/2024 17:14:00
06/07/2024 16:57:00
07/07/2024 16:41:00